Jorge Luis Borges - 10 great writers snubbed by the Nobel Prize

It is thought that Borges missed out because of his sympathy for various
dictators, among them Pinochet in Chile, Franco in Spain and Videla in his
native Argentina. After all, Alfred Nobel wanted the prize awarded to "the
most outstanding work in an ideal direction". "I'm the Latin
American writer who never got the Nobel Prize," Borges liked to say; "those
people in Stockholm thought they'd already given me one".